The adoption of state climate change policies and renewable portfolio standards: Regional diffusion or internal determinants?

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 527-546

  Matisoff, Daniel C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change policy; Energy policy; Green housegas policy; Internal determinants; Regional diffusion; Renewable portfolio standards; State policy adoption; State policy innovation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 56849111105     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2008.00360.x     Document Type: Article

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